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Not really comparable to Blender: Wings3D cannot animate. Part of Blender's draw (pardon the pun) is its physics engine and animation suite. I cannot say for certain, but I suspect Blender's Cycles Rendering Engine is vastly superior to Wings' renderer.

Wings has a barely functional GL renderer.

However, for making static meshes quickly, and for doing UV mapping without wanting to stab yourself in the face, you can't beat it.

Blender:GIMP::Wings::Paint.NET

It doesn't do everything, but what it does do it is great at. Blender is just too baroque--much like the GIMP.

We were discussing 3d modellers, and in that area, Wings3D is excellent. It only does a small set of things, but it does them very, very well. You can then import those models and UV maps into blender easily.

"Super simple interface, and it's even written in Erlang."

Meaning that you probably still can't read email in it, but it can already do conference calls. ;)

I absolutely love wings3d. It's the only 3d modeling app I've been able to create really cool shit with. I just love the vertex, line, polygon, polyhedron operations. It really lets you just kinda sculpt stuff and perform mathematical transformations effortlessly.